Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> writes: > it sounds strange, beacuse > > $ find . -print0 | while read -d $'\x00'; do touch "$REPLY"; done > > works fine.
Your "read -d $'\x00'" is exactly equivalent to "read -d ''". (You should use read -r -d '' to get really unmangled input.) > but if I try to "output" $'\x00', I can't. $ printf "\x00\n" | cat -A ^@ Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."